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J. H. BOGNBR.

TOY VEHICLE.

Patented Apr. 27 1886.

(No Model.) 2 SheetsfSheet 2. J. H. BOGNBR.

TOY VEHICLE.

Patented A131227. 1886.

No. 340,655I

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. BOGNER, OF ROCHESTER, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF TlVO-THIRDS TO LOUIS l?. WOLOHAN AND JAMES WOLOHAN, SR., BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

TOY VEHICLE.

SPECIFICATIONfox-ming part of Letters Patent NO.,340,655, dated April 27, 1886.

Application tiled November 2, 1885. Serial No. 181,617. (No model.) .a

To all whom it may concern: the body, and provided with aloose spur-gear, Be it known that I, JOHN H. BOGNER, of p, and enlarged part or drum c, upon which to Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State wind the cord g, said cord being secured at of New York, have invented a new and useful one end to said shaft, and at the other end to ImprovementinToyVehicles,which improvethe free end of the elastic driver d. Clearly 55 ment is fully set forth in the following specishown in Figs. 1 and 3.) Iication, and shownin the accompanying draw- A The shaft t may be provided with a crank, ings. 4 o, or other simple means by which to rotate it, The object of my invention is to produce a for the purpose of winding the cord gthereon, io rolling or moving toyin the form ota boat or to st-rain or produce a tension upon the elas- 6o other vehicle, the propelling-power for the tic driver d. same being an elastic cord operating-gearing e is another transverse shaft, parallel with which turns the driving-wheels ofthe device, 'the shaft t, resting in bearings in the body of causing the latter to move along the door or the device, provided with a pinion, h, iu posiiu the water, as the case may be, the drivingtion to engage the gear p, above mentioned. 65 wheels being so constructed that by drawing This shalt is also provided with a sprocket, lo, the vehicle backward, by means of a string or opposite a similar sprocket, k, secured to the cord attached thereto, the driving-cord beshaft b of the drivingwheels, a chain, f, passcomes strained, so as to propel the vehicle ing over said sprockets. 2o ahead when left to itself. New, it will be understood that if the shaft 7o Referring to the drawings, Figure 1, Sheet tbe rotated from any cause, the driving-wheel l, is a plan of my improved toy, it being here B will be turned at a more rapid rate, and if shown in the form ot' a boat, a part of the resting upon the iioor the device will be prowheel-house and deck being broken away to pelled therealong. Then the cordgis wound uncover oiher parts beneath, and the cabin 'upon theshaft t, as stated,and the driving-cord 75 horizontally sectioned, as upon the dotted line d sufficiently strained, said driving-cord will min Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same, rotate said shaft, and thus propel the vehicle. viewed as indicated by arrow y in Fig. l, The driving-wheels B are formed with pedrawn to more fully show the forni of the drivripheral teeth or ridges a, for the purpose of ing-wheels; Fig. 3, Sheet 2, a side sectional causing them to hold more firmly upon the 8o elevation of the same,viewed in the direction oor'or carpet and not slip when the toy is in which Fig. 2 is seen, the body of the toy being used. The spokes of these wheels are being vertically and longitudinally sectioned, also provided with buckets i, when the toy is as upon the dotted line z in Fig. l, drawn to made in the form of aboat, by means oi' which furthershowtherelativepositionsof the parts; the latter may be propelled along the water S5 and Fig. 4, a detached view cfa part ofdrivingto imitate a steamboat. gear drawn to a larger scale,and viewed in the The crank o is needed only occasionally to opposite direction from which Fig. 3 is seen. wind the cord g upon the shaft t, for the cord Referring to the parts, A is the body of the may be thus wound upon the shaft by moving 4o Vehicle, and Bthe driving-wheels thereof, one the toy backward along the door. A string, 9o being placed on either side of the body and r, is attached at the rear of the toy,to be seized secured to the same horizontal transverse by a child to draw the same around the room, shaft b. doing which the wheels B will be turned backd is an elastic drivingcord,which constitutes ward, causing the shaft t to wind up the cord g the propelling-power ofthe device. This cord and strain the driving-cord d,which,when the 95 is held at one end by a simple fastener, Z, to cord r is released by the child, causes the toy the body, near the rear end thereof, and carto glide away from him. ried thence forward and around a pulley, a, The shafttis provided with a rigid ratchet, l near the forward end of said body, as shown. s, at the side of the gear p, and a pawl, a, is

5o t is a transverse shaft resting in bearings in secured to the gear, the free end of which pawl roo engages the teeth ol' the ratchet, and gently held thereagainst by means of aspx-ing, e, also secured to the gear. By this nlens the 'gear p is turned in one direction by the rotation of 5 the shaft t,while said shaft turns independent of the gear in the other directiornor when the cord g is beingwound upon it.

A stern-wheel, c, or other earryingwvheels for the body of the toy7 nia-y be employed at Io pleasure.

fhat I claim as my invention is A toy vehicle having a body in the form of a boat, in combination with ashaft, b, provided with a sprocket and drivingwheels for the vehicle, said driving-wheel being provided with buckets and extending below the body of the vehicle, a'shaft, t, with gear p, shaft e, with pinion andsproeket, a chain, f, for said sprockets, an elastic driving-cord secured to the lower pztrt of said body and carried forward over it pulley secu red to said body, a cord, g, secured 

